Why so many doctors walked off?

They want more: Members of the Korean Public Service and Transport Workers’ Union staging a rally to demand expansion of public hospitals and medical students at the Seoul National University Hospital in Seoul. — AP

Thousands of junior doctors in South Korea have been refusing to see patients and attend surgeries since they walked off the job on Feb 20 in response to the government’s push to recruit more medical students.

More than 9,000 medical interns and residents have left their worksites in protest, disrupting the operations of major hospitals in the country and threatening to burden the country’s overall medical service.